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I have seen a lot of people who are good singers as well dancers. But eventually most of them move towards dancing as their favorite performance on stage. Even though they may enjoy singing as much, when it comes to performances, dancing is what rules the roost.

Now, when I think of the reasons one may have for the same, the choice as dance becomes quite obvious. Lets us now consider two categories of performances in both: Solo and Group.

Solo Performances

When it comes to solo performances, a person who choses to dance will have a big edge over the person who choses to sing. My reasons for the same are:

A solo song performer may have two options: to sing along with orchestra or with out it. If the singer choses to sing along with orchestra, it needs a lot of practise to tune along with the orchestra, to set them to your scale, else the performance is a disaster. If the singer choses to sing otherwise, he has to be a really accomplished singer, to sing without any support and yet not lose scale, or go besura.

A solo dancer on the other hand has just one external parameter that may affect his performance – to make sure that the audio plays properly

Somehow the audio and visual both effects impact a human brain more than audio alone. So, even average dancers some times get away with more applause than good singers!

Singing is definitely tougher than dancing. You can always do away with being an average dancer, but singing is a different feat altogether!

A solo dancer does not need to rehearse a lot. She just needs to know the song she is dancing on, really well. Thats the only prerequisite. However, a riyaz is a must for any singer!

So, a solo song performance needs a lot of fine tuning and depends on many more external factors than a solo dance performance!

Group Performances

A group song and dance performance both need lot of practise. Dance more because a slight mistake in coordination and the visibility is much higher! However, in a group of singers singing together – if one goes slightly off tune, it is not very noticeable! And the singers can get away with it, without someone even noticing the flaw!

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An interesting comparison. Never quite thought of it like that. I too thinking that singing in tune is very very difficult. Today if I want to be able to sing even averagely it requires more hard work than becoming an average dancer. And as for being the tops, well, thats difficult in any profession.

Nova, I agree. Currently there is an Internet singing contest under way in my county. They call it Brevard Idol and yesterday they announced the finalists. There is one young lady Ginnette Ward who sounds very much like Judy Garland. She earned my vote.
Check it out at http:www.flatoday.com/brevardidol. It is much harder than dancing.

I think that one can get trained to become a good dancer but to be a good singer the talent/ability (read good quality voice) has to be there to begin with. Not all the people with good voice pursue singing and not all the ones who pursue singing have good voice, thus more challenging, IMO. Dancing could be a learned; Of course if one has two left feet, then nothing much can be done but this activity does not require any inner talent, just the aptitude and an ability to learn should do it.

I think singing is much more from the heart kind of a thing….sometimes a sweetness of a person can come from his/her voice and you can say for sure that the gal/girl has a good heart, dancing i agree with Kanan is a skill which can be acquired by practise…yeah there will be some natural dancers but still… apart from that singing is something which to me looks much more classy…as in u are sitting in a group of people and u can completely awe them with you singing skills but dancing – there will be people who like it and some who dont, both the dance and the way it was done

@Kanan: I think even dancing requires an inherent talent and if you are not good at it, you wont be… You may have a lot more dancers than singers, but good dancers would also be rare… Now voice is not the only consideration to being a good singer. If you have an ear for music, your voice can be trained.

@Shyam: Singing is definitely classy and your comment relating to dance is debatable. That ways people may not like your choice of song as well… Both singing and dancing can be acquired by practise, just that singing is tougher!

We love this image of the dancers and would like to use it for our small newspaper that serves the homeless in Boston, MA. Any chance that we might be able to get your permission to run it with proper credit given?

singing is so much better then dance because singing mostly involves dance so singing is better dance has the singing in the back so it seems less importent when its defanatly not i luv to sing and alot of people say im reallly good i dont think i am but oh well im good at writing songs i made one called “this war has just begun” its good any way singing is so better! p.s. I’m only 12 so take that in mind!lol

Guyz wat a waste of time!
both are tough things for those does not have that talent of singing or dancing..
as i’m a singer…
i know its very tough 2 dance…
and for the dancers it may tough 2 sing!
i’m not including MJ!
lolz
Any WAy nice comparison!!
keep rocking and nice dancing picture on the top!!

Quite frankly, people who go on reality tv shows for ‘fame’ are jerks. If you wonna be famous then you gotta work your way to the top like Justin Bieber. He did it all by posting a few videos of him on youtube. Where as people like Susan Boyel are just very annoying and have no way of making things happen themselves (they are VERY LAZY). She’s not even good. She sings like a cat where as Justin Bieber has an amazing voice AND he doesn’t live with a cat on his own in Scotland so he is normal. Yeah JLS were on x-factor and they lost. But they didn’t get tha famous from that. So, they decided to make their own way to the top (they aren’t lazy) So if you want to get famous, get off your backside and make some phone calls 😀

I agree that Justin Bieber worked his way through and he sings nice, but without his LOOKS, he wouldn’t have made it. he has masses of little girls like you chasing after him. i think susan boyel has a beautiful voice, and it was agreed by all the judges&people in britains got talent. its not about lazy or not, you have to consider other factors and circumstances.

too bad singers don’t actually work out and all turn out fucking fat 🙂 ok sorry, i have resentment towards my high school choir i actually have a lot of respect for singers, i’ll never do what you guys can do. HOWEVER, the whole comment on how there is dance in singing…excuse me? i dont think so. dannce is just as difficult but guess what…dancers make it LOOK beautiful while singers stand there.
yep.

duh dancing i have been dancing since i was 2 yrs. old besides singing hurts your vocal corts dancing gets you to world wide fame you can be on abdc (americia’s best dance crew) and/or make your mark dancing is my life im 18 and im going to be a teacher/dance teacher

woooooow this is such bs. You people know nothing of dance and the struggles and challengers of a dancer, She you see the ballerinas on stage so pretty and light but those people tear themselves apart to get to being that good. There feet are grotesque and disgusting. To be a dancer you put your body in danger all the time. After working on a dance that involves a lot of floor work I wake up the next day with huge bruises all over my knees and hips and shoulders. it is physically and mentally exhausting. There’s soar muscles constantly and you risk pulling muscles, breaking bones, twisting ankles. Thats just the hard work put into it but the beauty of dance is that you express yourself with no words. Just your body and the movement and feeling the music its such a good feeling inside. Dancers are seriously under appreciated. Tell me people who say singing is harder. Can you do a switch leap? can you do an fuete? Can you do a calipso? I highly doubt you could.

Well i sing and dance, personally i think dancing is much harder. Imagine all those tricks and most styles are super hard! I do ballet, jazz, contemporary, hip hop, and lyrical and i have been dancing since i was 4 years old. Singing is hard once you start, alone is easy, everyone says its hard in a group but obviously you all havent taken singing lessons when you learn, practise and ty your hardest its not so hard stupid people. No offence to anyone im just disagreeing and stating my own opinion.